Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode"

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    - PowerShell, some clarifications required I need to know more about PowerShell: Does it run under XP as well as Vista. Could it be used to automate responding to questions that come up during the installation of a Access Runtime application? Is there anything else that might? Does it need to installed on the PC where the installation is taking place? I am trying to help Users who install my application and get a lot of dialog boxes coming up to which they have to give the correct answer or much pain ensues! That's what happens when you install Access 2002 runtime on Vista. Any answer or comment would be welcome. Many thanks. Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373601
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    - Vista stuck in paragon boot manager screen Hi, I have vista premium and it will not boot because the paragon boot manager wont let it 'I wanted to dual boot with xp but lost power in the middle of it and now I cannot get into windows at all. Does anyone know a fix for this? I have no recovery files, they are on the hard drive. JohnTy Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373595
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    - Cannot Rename a New Folder Recently I have found that I cannot rename a "New Folder". I can create a New Folder OK, but when I right click and select Rename, then the newly typed name reverts back to "New Folder" and I get the error message "File Does Not Exist". I can rename the folder OK through a Command Prompt window, but not in Explorer. I have tried "taking Ownership" and "Running as Administator", with UAC turned off, and again with UAC turned on. No go. I have read several threads from people with what sounds like the same problem. All seem to come down to a corrupt registry entry in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENT VERSION\EXPLORER\FOLDER_DESCRIPTIONS. I have tried to fix this as advised in http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/130137-cannot-rename-move-file-folder-vista-fix.html, by downloading a file; Fix_Rename_32_Bit_Vista.reg and merging it into the registry by right clicking This does not work either. Any ideas please. I am running 32 bit Vista Home Premium. Not a Vlite installation. I cannot perform a repair install as I do not have a Vista Install Disc - the pc came pre-loaded with Vista, with the install files hidden somewhere (in the BIOS ?). I really don't want to start from scratch with a clean install - it takes days to reload all software and get all settings back to where I want them. If the answer involves editing the registry, please explain it very carefully to me; I am a bit of a novive re: registry entries. Thanks Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373588
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    - Displaying chinese characters Hi All: I have Vista home premium installed. I have some songs that are in chinese, what can I download to make the song titles etc display properly in WMA? I don't understand why at the moment some characters are displayed perfectly fine while others are a whole bunch of symbols. Can anyone help? Many thanks in advance! Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373582
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    - copying to a SD card I'm trying to copy from My pictures to an SD card. The drive is recognised but it keeps telling my that the disk is write protected. I've checked the SD card and it isn't locked. Any ideas would be appreciated Thanks Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373578
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    - Vista Won't Sleep Ever since I got Vista Ultimate a bit over a year ago it was very reluctant to enter sleep mode; it would manage that maybe one in four tries. This is on a Gateway fX530XV with a 24 in gateway monitor. I recently installed SP1 and it has absolutely refused to go to sleep. When that choice is clicked on the monitor goes dark and very shortly the orange standby light comes on. The hard drive light quits flashing and the system will accept no inputs at all. I have to use the power button to turn it off and then during restart I have to click on "Start Windows Normally" to avoid a period of apparent self checking, then it goes on to the user page and then to a chosen desktop. I would like for it to access sleep so as to return to where it was when paused, as well as having a quicker restart. Comments would certainly be welcome. Oh yeah, the unit has 4GB RAM and a processor that runs at 2.13 Hz, and neither has ever been a bother. -- Chuck E Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373574
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    - Windows Update and Norton Internet Security 2008 I have a laptop runing Vista (no SP1) and am having problems running Windows Updates on the machine. I have run Windows Update on this machine in the past. I recently had to uninstall and reinstall NIS 2008 on this laptop. Now when I run Windows Updates, it produces the following error: -------------------------------- Windows could not search for new updates Error(s) found: CODE 80072EE2 The only option is to "Get Help". Clicking on that shows 25 Windows Updates, all with an error and error code. The error code 80072EE2 details provides the following instructions; Add the following websites to your firewall exceptions list; - http://*.update.microsoft.com - https://*.update.microsoft.com - http://download.windowsupdate.com ---------------------------------------- I have a message on the Symantec support forum. But wanted to see if anyone here have add websites to NIS 2008's Exceptions list? I know how to add IP Addresses to the Trusted List, but this does not appear to be the area to add these sites. Or is there another reason within Windows Update for this error? Thanks for any assistance. Charlie ****************************************************** Charliec Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373563
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    - Using Black wall paper locks up computer I recently switched my Vista Home Premium computer to using black for the wallpaper. Bad idea. The next time I booted up, nothing would run. Outlook would not run, Taskmanager opened but only slowly. My browser would not tun. As soon as I switched back to my last wallpaper, everything ran just fine. Is there something inherently wrong with using black? >>RSM Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373555
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    - csrss.exe in winsxs I saw somewhere that there are versions of csrss.exe which are malware. The posts said that versions of csrss.exe that are not in the windows/system32 directory are probably malware and should be deleted. I did a search of my harddrive and found that there are in fact two versions of csrss.exe, one in the windows/system32 directory and another burried deep within the windows root directory. The file is the only file sitting in this directory: C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-csrss_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6001.18000_none_58e3e3d7e415ae4c I tried to rename the file to see what happens but Vista told me that I didn't have permission to do that (gotta love Vista!). Anyway, I did a little research into winsxs and found this article interesting: 'Demystifying the WinSxS directory in Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003/2008 - Aaron Tiensivu's Blog' (http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1306-Demystifying-the-WinSxS-directory-in-Windows-XP,-Vista-and-Server-20032008.html) Could someone verify that another copy of csrss.exe is supposed to be sitting in the winsxs directory? Thanks -- Meir Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373551
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    - Track at once with Premium 32-bit When one inserts a blank DVD to backup some file for example, Vista asks the write process is "track at once" or "disc at once". I choose "track at once" since I want to write more than once, 'til the disc is full. However, the next time I insert the same disc, Vista does NOT ask me anymore. So how can I keep filling the disc in this mode 'til its full? Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373539
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    - Welcome Center After I upgraded to Outlook 2007, the icon for "Read and write e-mail" disappeared, and when I click on it, it says that Windows cannot find C:\Program. How do I fix the icon and then correct the the connection problem? Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373535
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    - Toolbar shortcut doesn't work On the bottom toolbar is the Desktop Toolbar for launching programs. The MS Office programs will suddenly not launch when chosen! Any idea what is wrong and how to FIX? When I choose a program nothing happens. I can however right-click and choose open. Help. Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373532
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    - How to fix the Vista TASK SWITCHING ORDER -- badly broken/designed Why -- and how to fix -- is the Vista TASK SWITCHING ORDER so badly broken/designed? This is just driving me crazy -- under older versions of Windows you could trivially predict where a program would be in the task switching order, last program used 1st, previous next,etc. Now is is (sometimes) seemingly random -- other times in the older order. I do understand some concept of closing the window, or perhaps iconizing the program, that might put the task at the END of the switching order but this is not even what Vista does. It frequently will put the most recently used program at the end, OR near but not AT the end. Is there some registry setting to restore simply the old behavior? Or to restore any logical, predictable behavior? -- Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP http://www.LearnQuick.Com (phone on web site) If you use LinkedIn then tell me where you know me from when linking: http://www.linkedin.com/in/herbmartin Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373529
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    - Memory Diagnostic results? Hello, I ran the Memory Diagnostics tool and after it completed and rebooted back into Windows, I didnt see any results. Where do you see the results of the test? I'm trying to diagnose this problem where my PC is rebooting at random, but I can't determine if it's a memory problem or not. So where can I find the results of this test? Thanks, Jeff Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373527
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    - Noisy Vista I have a new Gateway system that I bought a few months ago and lately it seems that the hard drive is very noisy. When you go from one web page to another it sounds like a car revving up it's engine. I have some files to encode and when I do that, it just sounds like it's full speed ahead. Maybe its nothing but it scares me a little. Is this normal? And im assuming it's the hard drive, I guess im not really sure. Like a car revving up it's engine is the best way I can describe it. Thanks. Tom Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373525
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    - LOL Uses Firefox LOL does not use Microsoft Window Explorer. He uses Firefox the default browser for Ubuntu. I guess the idiot uses it because he is just too stupid to master that hard to use insecure browser alternative in his beloved shista. Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373519
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    - ASUS A8S-X Vista x64 I'm supposedly running RAID 1 in as stated in the BIOS but I have no way of checking this since I can't find the driver for this mobo. So I'm running RAID1 but I have no RAID utility tool so that if a disk failure occurs I don't even know how to rebuild the RAID. Furthermore, I got 4 GB of ram but it only detects 3. When I turn on the memory hole option to get 4 GB, my screen randomly loses signal and I need to reboot. -- softwareguy256 Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373513
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    - Column widths Explorer Vista x64 This BUG has really gotten me close to exploding. I resize the column in explorer and the stupid program forgets as soon as I change folders. I have tried all the basic stuff in tools->folder options nothing works. I am on SP1. Help me figure this out. -- softwareguy256 Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373512
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    - RAM Usage in Vista I have recently installed Vista Home Premium onto my P Dual 3Ghz PC. I have 3GB of RAM installed and was surprised to notice in Task Manager that 948GB in use, 2349GB cached and no free RAM. Whilst installing some software, I again checked Task Manager and noted that I had 10-20MB free whilst the install was happening. When it finished, it was dropped back to around about the same level but there was no free RAM, it was all cached again. Should all my free RAM be cached? Is the caching causing my machine to slow down (installing software does seem to be taking longer)? Can I stop Vista from doing this? Should I be worried about this? Apologies if I'm being a complete dunce on this but I am a little concerned. Thanks -- Andy Wylie Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373499
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    - IE7 crashing continuously....... What on earth is wrong with IE7, it crashes everytime I use it...and I mean EVERYTIME!!!!!! Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373492
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    - mailto link in web page a problem I have a webpage with a link like: mailto:someone@someplace.com In windows XP clicking this link activates mail client (Outlook in my case), allowing user to fill in the email and send it. The webpage containing the mailto link remains displayed in IE7 browser. Fine. In Vista, clicking this link also activates mail client (Windows Mail). However, it also loads mailto:someone@someplace.com into the IE7 browser address window, then generates message in browser window "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Of course it shouldn't even be trying to display a mailto: as a webpage. Is there a setting somewhere to get rid of this wierd behaviour? Thanks for help. Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373491
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    - Partition manager? Any recommendations for a partition manager for Vista? I'm looking at Acronis Disk Director, but don't see that it will work with Vista. Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373463
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    - Speech recognition Does anyone know if you can take a sound file created with a handheld digital recorder and turn it into written text by using the Vista Speech Recognition function? Thanks. Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373442
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    - Vista System Restore plus slowdown Hi folks, I'm running Home Premium n an HP laptop and up until yesterday everything was just fine. I also have SP1 and that went well. Yesterday, the system kept freezing or operating extremely slow and for the life of me I had no clue of what was going on. I had to press and hold the power button to shut down so I could reboot. I could not open Control Panel at all - the hour glass just kept swirling but nothing else would happen. After the reboot the system displayed the same behavior and at this point I noticed that it wasn't really locked up but in fact operating so slow that it appeared that way. After no luck with the obvious I checked the startup group - nothing there, I cleared out the temp folders and files which seemed to help. I decided to simply use a system restore to a previous state of a few days ago. The first time I did this, I got a message that Windows was NOT successful with the restore. I tried an earlier restore point and got the same notification that the restore was NOT successful but it appeared that it was. A program I installed after that particular restore point was gone and the system seemed to be better - that is my email and browser loaded quickly and ran as if all was OK. 1 - Has anyone run into this problem with such a gross slowdown (hourglass going on and on) 2 - What is going on with System Restore? I've used it in the past a few times on my XP machine but this was the first time using the Vista laptop. Any advice or comments are appreciated. Thanks, Fred PS - I haven't had access to the laptop yet today but will soon turn it on and hope for the best - I will update if the slowdown continues. Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373426
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    - ntfs partition formated with 16k clusters Can vista 32 pro install on an ntfs partition formated with 16k clusters. If so how can I format the drive to 16k clusters using the vista boot cd, are there any steps or commands I need to do during the boot sequence? And are there any "stable" third party programs or suggestions so I don't have to dump the current os that is on the drive? As I believe that the image file restores the cluster size. thanks, any thoughts? Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373418
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    - Vista is constantly beeping at me Every time i have a pop-up come up, my computer beeps. when I right click to delete something, my computer beeps. I'm driving my coworkers crazy, but the stupid thing won't shut up. I've turned off every sound option I can find, I don't have speakers attached, and still, it beeps at me. How can I make this stop? Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373412
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    - Built in mic problems in need of help! I have a dell inspiron 1520 with a built in mic i dont remember when exactly i started haveing this problem buts it been goin on for quite some time. my built in mic stopped working and it wont let me use it for any thing every time i go into the sound device menu and i go to recording devices its not there even with both disabled and unplugged checked. I have tryed reinstalling vista numerous times to fix this problem and they never worked. I have tried uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling them. I have no idea what to do any help would be appreciated. Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373410
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    - Vista can't update via WSUS: Error 80244019 My network uses GPO's to apply approved updates to XP & Vista Business boxes. For some reason, the Vista boxes are getting an 80244019 error. Currently Windows Firewall is set to OFF, and Windows Defender is still enabled. I've tried disabling both services as well and the error still appears. How can I get WSUS to push out to the Vista machines? Thanks Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373406
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    - Need Help w/ Profile - Locked Out. Pls. So when I try to log into my profile, it says that the profile loader application failed to load my profile. and thats all it says and i can't bypass it in any way, i have to sign on to a different profile. And the profile that's locked is my Administrator profile. Is there anything I can do? Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373387
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    - Second Life causes BSD on close-down Whenever I run Second Life (SL) and then close my PC (running Vista Ultimate) I get a Blue Screen of Death. If I don't run SL it's fine. I suspect that there is a graphics card issue. I'm using an nVida 6600GT card with proper drivers. Is this a known issue with Vista/SL/nVidia? Is there a cure? Cheers. Bobby Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373386
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    - Bluescreen: network file copy and shared printer connection Hello all, I've had a problem with Vista 32bit for quite a while now. This happened before and after Sp1. Basically, if I connect to a remote share and attempt to copy a file to the pc/server, i'll get a bluescreen after a few seconds. I can't remember the exact file referenced in the crash (I can recreate it and get it). This also happens when I attempt to connect to a shared printer. SP1 didn't make a difference. Anyone have any ideas or heard of similar vista behavior? Thanks in advace... Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373380
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    - Vista 100% cpu usage after bootup / windows update I have 2 pc's running vista Home premium. As of the morning of 5/7/08, both of them are having an issue after bootup where cpu usage is near 100% for about 20-30 minutes. The computers are completely un-usable in this state. Looking at resource monitor(which takes about 10 minutes to load), both are showing svchost (netsvcs) PID 1456 at 100%. After this initial 20 to 30 minute lock up session, both computers seem to work fine. After investigating the issue a bit, it has something to do with windows update. If I go to control panel windows update, and try to update, the same thing happens. Not sure if this means anything but both computers have update KB940510 under the windows update control panel console, dated 5/7/2008. From researchign this update it is something to do with windows validation. Both PC's have OEM installs of vista, so I dont 'think' the validation is the issue. I know this isnt a hardware issue as one of the pc's is a HP laptop, the other is a Dell xps desktop. Both computers have had 0 issues before the morning of the 7th, and both have AV software and have had no signs of a virus. I have not installed anything on either of the computers lately. Neither share much of the same software beside antiviurs. (CA AV 2008) My xp and windows 2000 machines are working fine. Any help would be much appreciated. Currently, disabling windows update seems to solve the issue but this is not a long term solution, IMO. Thanks Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373378
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    - Backup of the TPM Hi again! This is a difficult question, because noone has never used BitLocker, i know :) I wanna encrypt the Vista Ultimate partition with BitLocker, but i'm preoccupied: what happens if my PC breaks down? How could i restore the encrypted files from another PC? What keys are needed? And how can i backup them? Thanks a lot, bye! Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373377
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    - Creating ISO CDs with Vista Hi guys, first of all sorry for my english. I tried to burn an empty CD with Windows Vista (Ultimate SP1): in the "Prepare media" window, i selected "Mastered CD", then i copied some files to D (where D is the drive letter of my recorder), and clicked "Burn CD". It says there're no files to burn, but that's not true! By formatting the CD with Live File System (UDF 2.01), there're no problems. Any ideas? Thanks 1k, bye! Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373374
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    - Inquiry: Where to post Have already posted through OE the 'old fashioned way' (not sure how it went through), and my post was delivered into the "Performance & Maintenance" group. It's concerning an issue my laptop is having with a looping blue screen error; is it posted to the correct folder, or should I move it here? Thank you for your time, just wanted to make sure I am in the right location for the proper assistance. Suzanne Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373367
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    - Did you all know <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font face="sans-serif">There is some guy frank that is infatuated with Alias and Clear Window.  I think he loves both of them.  We all know the guy is sick.<br> </font> </body> </html> Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373341
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    - Side Bar A very small problem compared to some of you here but........ I think the side bar is great - nice feature BUT why does it keep disappearing on my computer? It is there on the desktop when I first switch on computer and then when I open 3-4 windows and then click on the desk top icon and go back to desktop - it has disappeared! And yet if I minimize the windows and go back to desktop this way - there it is! If the window I am using is not full screen - I can see it - and yet if I click on desk top to go back to desk top - it disappears. Any ideas? Thank you Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373328
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    - Don't Buy these programs for "Vista": These two programs are bundled with 3 in 1 offerings. However at least two of three do NOT work with Vista: History Cleaner and Macro Buddy. Bad news for Vista! Took me some time to do a System Restore and clean the registry. No refunds given either. -Pete Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373325
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    - MEDIA CENTER how do i unistall media center or downgrade the MS Windows Media Player to MSWM Player 10 or 11? because none of the online apps support MS Windows Media Center and because of that i cant open certin sights. can anyone help? thanks danny Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373324
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    - Vista versus XP Today a suggestive article in Marketwatch.com mentioned the demise of Vista operating systems. It was pointed out that this is unlikely due to the overwhelming brilliant and costly staff who developed and marketed this costly venture. I am suggesting a more practical approach to this situation. Buy Apple. The message is clear. Big business is unbending in their approach to this software. The Lemming approach is in high gear. So for the Barack Obama movement in operating software to take hold, you need the candidate. Treasure your XP (A statement I thought I would never utter) and move to the most logical system available. Apple OS is bought in quantity will send a message to the bottom line that Microsoft recognizes, shareholder value. Meanwhile to all you Vista supporters, keep up the good work, you will surely help the cause. Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373317
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    - i cant do a restore i tried to do a system restore and it keeps comming up with an unspecified error occurred during system restore and wondering what could be wrong and if someone could help me i tied it 3 times and it keeps comming up with the same thing thank you Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373303
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    - UAC and scripting What is Microsofts solution if you run vbscripts for administrative tasks and these are affected by UAC ? Swicthing UAC off requires a restart, once to disable and then once to enable UAC once script has finished running, which hardly makes the administrative change transparent to the user. Group policies are handy to do this, and was a good idea but the question is the restart thats required. You can turn it off completely and leave it off which sounds like the best idea, but I'm really curious about Microsoft's take on this ? There must be some big companies using scripts out there. How do people get around this ? cheers Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373301
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    - Upgrade from Dutch to English version Hi, I would like to upgrade my Ducth Vista into an English version? What shall I do? If I buy an UK version and install it I might loose all my datas. Would it be safer to upgrade the actual version? If yes pls tell me how. Thanks Gek Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373292
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    - Blocked Traffic My Security blocks the following traffic when comming out of SLEEP MODE. Windows Networking (1) out; IGMP Out: LLMNR: UPnP. This only happens on Vista and not XP with same programs Internet Security is F-Secure supplied by ISP Embarq. Only happens when comming out of sleep mode, not at restart or other times. Always the same 4 traffic groups. Embarq support does not know answer. Any help as to what it is or what to do whould be appreciated. I do not see any efftects on my computer, but I do not know if this traffic should be alloed or what it is for. Thank You, Your comments are appreciated. Ward Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373288
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    - New "C" Drive Hello, if i install a new drive, which is to be a replacement for a failing drive, can I get away with just copying the contents off the old one onto the new one, then installing that? I seem to remember something about MBR etc. How will Vista react if I do this, will it require reactivation? Will I have to reinstall all programs that are on the other hard drives? Is there any cloning utility I can use, for example within Nero 8 as I have that? Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373277
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    - Blue Screen Hi, I recently got a blue screen in Windows vista ( while I was working in a terminal Server session) and would like to know anyone can help me determine the cause of it? I was able to retrieve the following info when my PC started back: Product Windows Problem Shut down unexpectedly Date 5/5/2008 8:41 AM Status Not Reported Problem signature Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.4 Locale ID: 1033 Files that help describe the problem (some files may no longer be available) Mini050508-02.dmp sysdata.xml Version.txt Extra information about the problem BCCode: a BCP1: 000081B0 BCP2: 00000002 BCP3: 00000001 BCP4: 81DC9073 OS Version: 6_0_6001 Service Pack: 1_0 Product: 256_1 Any help will be appreciated, p.s I also have the files that can help descrieb the problem that is reference in the above -- Urvin Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373267
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    - Vista SP1 question for an MVP please I have been waiting for Windows Update to offer SP1 and it has not happened yet. I am in no rush for SP1, but am beginning to wonder if it will ever be automatically offered. Should I continue to wait, or should I manually download it from the MS site. My concern is the update process might know something about my system that could cause me problems after a manual download. Any input would be much appreciated. Thank you. Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373263
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    - Application installation problem I'm posting this here because I can't get any solution from teh software company. I run and rely on Xara Xtreme Pro graphic software. I've used various versions for over 10 years and currently run v3.3 very successfully on my Vista Ultimate 32 bit machine. I get a number of errors at 99% install: these inform me that the files which reside in c:/program files/common files/xara are "not found". When I then try to run the installed program I get an "internal program error 2625.k.me.ps". If I then try to run v3.3 I get the same program error! To get back to a working version of v3.3 I've had to do a disk image restore. I've disabled my AV (AVG Pro), spyware (Spyware Doctor & Windows Defender) and closed WinPatrol for good measure (it monitors registry access attempts)... there is nothing there which I could imagine would cause a problem. I've even installed as an administrator but there's no change in the errors thrown up. Thanks for any help. Steve Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373260
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    - Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. My comment: Im posting this to the XP newsgroup too, just so they can be even more warned about how bad vista is, and to avoid it. I still cannot understand how stupid some vista fanboys like frank and others are about vista. Here all the world is saying vista is crap, yet they put their fingers in their ears and march to their own microsoft vista tune! Article: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=437 read the rest of this article on the above link Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. Over the past year, reviews of Windows Vista by mainstream media outlets, the technical press, bloggers, and ordinary users have been, for the most part, scathing. And many of those bad reviews were absolutely accurate. My co-authors and I just completed an extensive post-Service Pack 1 revision of our book Windows Vista Inside Out. Over the past year, we installed, upgraded, and used Windows Vista on a broad cross-section of hardware designs from nearly a dozen manufacturers. During that time, we experienced some of those same performance, reliability, and compatibility issues ourselves. What we found was simple: With a clean install on well-supported hardware, everything worked just fine. But toss in an incompatible application or a flaky video, storage, or network driver, and performance could suffer. Badly. Over the past year or so, we have also observed steady and occasionally dramatic improvements in the Windows ecosystem. Most of the large issues in Windows Vista were effectively resolved by a series of updates delivered via Windows Update, including more than 500 fixes that were rolled up into Service Pack 1. Third-party hardware makers, many of whom were slow to get working Vista drivers out the door, have since released updates that can make a huge difference in the Vista experience. Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373245
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    - Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. Im posting this to the XP newsgroup too, just so they can be even more warned about how bad vista is, and to avoid it. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=437 read the rest of this article on the above link Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. Over the past year, reviews of Windows Vista by mainstream media outlets, the technical press, bloggers, and ordinary users have been, for the most part, scathing. And many of those bad reviews were absolutely accurate. My co-authors and I just completed an extensive post-Service Pack 1 revision of our book Windows Vista Inside Out. Over the past year, we installed, upgraded, and used Windows Vista on a broad cross-section of hardware designs from nearly a dozen manufacturers. During that time, we experienced some of those same performance, reliability, and compatibility issues ourselves. What we found was simple: With a clean install on well-supported hardware, everything worked just fine. But toss in an incompatible application or a flaky video, storage, or network driver, and performance could suffer. Badly. Over the past year or so, we have also observed steady and occasionally dramatic improvements in the Windows ecosystem. Most of the large issues in Windows Vista were effectively resolved by a series of updates delivered via Windows Update, including more than 500 fixes that were rolled up into Service Pack 1. Third-party hardware makers, many of whom were slow to get working Vista drivers out the door, have since released updates that can make a huge difference in the Vista experience. Tag: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" Tag: 373244

Hi, my problem is I'm trying to run a program which can only run under two
conditions:
1) Can only run under windows XP.
2) Needs to run in safe mode to work correctly.

I can solve the first problem by simply runing the program under
compatibility mode (so it thinks its running under XP SP2). but the problem
is that in Safe Mode I can't use the compatibility mode because the
option is greyed out.

So my question is; is there any other way to use compatibility mode while in
Safe mode? like from the command line?

Many thanks in advance.

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Re: Subject: Vista question about "compatibility mode" and "safe mode" by Mark

Mark
Fri May 09 06:03:21 PDT 2008

No, your choices are pretty much limited to a dual boot, or Virtual PC.

Virtual PC 2004 SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=47&p=4&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=c2c27337-d4d1-4b9b-926d-86493c7da1aa&u=details.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6D58729D-DFA8-40BF-AFAF-20BCB7F01CD1%26displaylang%3den

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"Ray" <Ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C3B0F414-D510-44B4-BD1A-8B933A47842A@microsoft.com...
> Hi, my problem is I'm trying to run a program which can only run under two
> conditions:
> 1) Can only run under windows XP.
> 2) Needs to run in safe mode to work correctly.
>
> I can solve the first problem by simply runing the program under
> compatibility mode (so it thinks its running under XP SP2). but the
> problem
> is that in Safe Mode I can't use the compatibility mode because the
> option is greyed out.
>
> So my question is; is there any other way to use compatibility mode while
> in
> Safe mode? like from the command line?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>

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